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Corporate development and in-house counsel face a range of challenges when deal negotiations or target data is disclosed to the media, investors, customers, or employees. Whether through an intentional or unintentional disclosure, leaks can significantly impact or scuttle a transaction.

This discussion considered the unique legal, cultural, and strategic issues associated with leaks and the need for overall improvements in M&A security through...

Cross-border dealmaking across the tech sector remained buoyant in 2018. In the first three quarters of the year, deal value rose to US$89.4 billion, up 1.5% on the same period in 2017. With volume dropping by 11%, this suggests that valuations were up considerably. This is largely in line with overall trends for global M&A in a year that could rank as one of the best on record.

With the outlook for the future decidedly uncertain, White & Case surveyed 150 tech executives around the world to gauge their expectations for cross-border dealmaking over the next two years.

Deloitte’s sixth M&A trends report reviews insights from 1,000 executives at corporations and private equity firms about deal activity in the current year and their expectations for the next 12 months. Given current uncertainties facing dealmakers, the somewhat surprising results point to sustained, strong deal activity, with 76% of M&A executives at US-headquartered corporations and 87% of M&A leaders at domestic private equity firms expecting an increase in the...

This paper discusses the findings of an extensive, long-term research study into abandoned acquisitions—defined as announced merger and acquisition that subsequently fail to complete. Nearly 80,000 announced transactions during the period 1992-2016 were analyzed for the study.

The research on deal failure rates by acquirer-target region pairs, and emphasizes the significant difference in failure rates between public and private announced deals, which is attributed to...